Colleen Macklin is a game designer, professor at Parsons School of Design and founder and co-director of PETLab (Prototyping Education and Technology Lab). PETLab projects include disaster preparedness games with the Red Cross, the urban activist game Re:Activism and the physical/fiscal sport Budgetball. PETLab has also published game design curricula for the Boys and Girls Club. She is a member of the game design collective Local No. 12, best known for their card game, The Metagame. She is also co-author of the book Games, Design and Play. Her work has been shown at Come Out and Play and Creative Time.